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Four twenty somethings in contemporary Istanbul: Zeynep is a student who feels distressed from following daily news. Her housemate Ayşe tries to flee abroad because she cannot see a future for herself in Turkey. Mehmet i
In this revealing program, noted author and economic activist Naomi Klein offers a lecture and a candid interview in which she expounds on the ideas at the heart of her best-selling book.
A short film broadcast on the Network 21 pirate tv station in 1987. "a short film, devoid of soundtrack, of a youth on a cross spinning suspended in fire, over which was superimposed another youth languishing in an armc
A young, idealistic director is in for a rude awakening after arriving in Los Angeles to pitch their first film, but when an actor hijacks their trip, they’re taken on a wild, all-in-one-night journey through the insane
In 1911 Austin, Pennsylvania was flooded due to the collapse of a dam built to serve the town's large paper mill, killing 72 people, many of whom were trying to save the lives of others. Moving across the town's earliest
It's hard to predict when disaster will strike … but it's not hard to prepare for it when it does! This helpful guide offers a wealth of information on how to prepare for the worst. Taking the popular "Dummies" patented
A short hybrid documentary recontextualizing the Point Ellice Bridge collapse of 1896, a disaster that took place during a colonial celebration and military demonstration on Queen Victoria’s 76th birthday, in what is now
On May 9, 1980, one of the most stunning tragedies in maritime history occured when the M/V Summit Venture, a massive 608' bulk freighter, collided with Florida's Sunshine Skyway Bridge. More than 1,200 feet of the giant
A convicted murderer holds the world hostage with a year 2000 virus in all the world's major computer systems.
Inspired by Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," documentary filmmaker Shukichi Koizumi, with the cooperation of Shunichi Wakatsuki, director of Nagano Prefecture's Saku General Hospital, a pioneer in rural medicine, made th
A moving documentary made to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Penlee Lifeboat Disaster on 19 December 1981. The eight-man crew of the RNLB Solomon Browne, the lifeboat from the Penlee station in Mousehole,
The story of the 1996 Sea Empress oil spill off the Pembrokeshire coast, and how communities mobilised to respond to the disaster and protect their coastline.
David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.
Sarajevo, late June 1914: A Serbian nationalist shoots the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne and his wife. A few weeks later, war raged in Europe with devastating consequences.
The Ashtabula train disaster and bridge collapse was the worst train disaster of the 19th century, claiming the lives of 97 people. The engineering and structural failures that caused the collapse of a bridge that stood
Relationship problems between a father and son are intensified by Hurricane Andrew.
It was the most destructive natural disaster in the history of Europe: On November 1, 1755, an earthquake shook the seabed off Lisbon. Buildings collapse in the city, thousands of people die. The survivors flee to the po
March 27, 1977. At 2:00 in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners. An explosion at a nearby airp
